Giuseppe Nucci - Transhumanism
Giuseppe Nucci01The body of a "cryopatient" from Italy arrives at KrioRus' cryopreservation site outside Moscow in the middle of the night. It will be stored in liquid nitrogen at a temperature of negative 196 degrees Celsius, or negative 320 degrees Fahrenheit.
Giuseppe Nucci02Workers stockpile dry ice outside a liquid nitrogen and dry ice factory near Moscow that supplies KrioRus. The cost of liquid nitrogen is about 10 rubles per liter, while dry ice costs about 80 rubles per kilogram.
Giuseppe Nucci03A KrioRus technician dons a mask to protect against carbon dioxide fumes as he prepares to enter a cooling chamber. In the cooling chamber, the bodies are covered with dry ice to bring the temperature down to negative 78 degrees Celsius before immersion in liquid nitrogen.
Giuseppe Nucci04Anastasia Gracheva, a member of the Russian Cosmist Movement, sits inside the library and museum where the Nikolai Fedorov foundation is located. She is an expert on all things Fedorov. Her mother was Svetlana Semenova, whose DNA is preserved by KrioRus.
Giuseppe Nucci05Filippo Polistena is the founder of Polistena Human Cryopreservation, an Italian partner of KrioRus. Here, at La Certosa cemetery in Bologna, he and his workers prepare a body for shipment to Russia.
Giuseppe Nucci06Danila Medvedev is a member of the Governing Council of the Russian Transhumanism Movement and a co-founder of KrioRus. He translated Robert Ettinger’s 1962 book *The Prospect of Immortality* into Russian in 2003. He stands before three dewars, which each contain up to eight bodies. The bodies hang upside down to protect the brain from damage if any liquid nitrogen is removed.
Giuseppe Nucci07Valery Boris is a former art professor and an expert on the writings of cosmist Nikolai Fedorov. He spends his time building a garden called Resurrection Paradise dedicated to the philosopher outside his home.
Giuseppe Nucci08Danila Medvedev serves on the board of directors for the Russian Transhumanist Movement. RTM also started the Nanolab Project, a VR platform.
Giuseppe Nucci09This machine allows technicians at KrioRus to detect the quantity of cryoprotectant solution in a patient during a step called perfusion.
Giuseppe Nucci10Alexey Samykin and Igor Trapeznikov are activists with the Russian Transhumanist Movement. They stand inside KriorRus' Moscow headquarters during a cryopreservation demonstration for a documentary by the German channel Galileo.
Giuseppe Nucci11Salomino Olga works at the Russian National Library in Moscow. She prepares documents belonging to the cosmist Nikolai Fedorov while standing beneath a portrait of him. Fedorov also worked at the library when he was alive.
Giuseppe Nucci12The grave of Svetlana Semenova lies in the village of Alabino near Moscow. Semenova founded a library dedicated to the cosmist Nikolai Fedorov, and her DNA is cryopreserved at KrioRus' storage in Sergiev Posad.
Giuseppe Nucci13Olga Levitskaya is a 24-year-old transhumanist and neurobiologist. She is wearing a CyberSuit she developed to help rehabilitate patients after injuries. The suit cost 2 million rubles, or roughly $315,000, to create, and she hopes to make it available to a wider audience in 2020.
Giuseppe Nucci14The Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow was erected in 1964. It is an icon of Cosmist thought.
Giuseppe Nucci15Sergey Efratov and Ivan Stepin perform a demonstration related to DNA cryopreservation at KrioRus hangar in Sergiev Posad.
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